Instructor Bios

 
Louis Arcarese, PhD, is Director of Youth Services for Pathway, Inc., a non-profit United Way agency, which has served Santa Clara County residents since 1964 providing substance abuse treatment, intervention, and education to thousands of men, women, and children.  Services include: outpatient counseling, school based day treatment, student assistance programs, community prevention programs, assessments, community education, and justice system alternatives.  Dr. Arcarese is also an instructor in the MFT program at Santa Clara University.  He is a much-decorated Veteran from his military service in Vietnam.

Linda Barnard, Ph.D, is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist in private practice in Sacramento since 1981.  Dr. Barnard has also served as a trainer and consultant to various domestic violence programs in northern California since 1982. Dr. Barnard frequently appears in court as an expert witness in domestic violence, having testified in over 200 cases, and conducted assessments in over 750 additional cases. She is a Board Certified Expert in Domestic Violence as well as a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress through the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. In addition, she consults as an expert in complex, contested child custody cases where allegations of domestic violence are involved. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences around the state.

Elaine Brady, PhD, is a Certified Addiction Specialist and a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist in private practice.  Dr Brady has also served as a Program Manager for the Partial Hospitalization Program for Mood Disorders at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA, and as Executive Director of the El Dorado Women’s Center, Placerville, CA.  She is also an Instructor at California State University, Santa Cruz, and has published numerous articles on addiction and attachment.

Stephanie Brown, PhD, is an internationally-known clinician, lecturer, researcher, and author in the field of alcoholism.  Dr. Brown founded the Alcohol Clinic at Stanford University Medical Center, and is especially well known for her pioneering work in the theory and treatment of adult children of alcoholics.  She is currently the Consulting Director for The Addictions Institute, California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University.

Joan Calandra, PhD, RN, is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in West Los Angeles. She treats adult patients throughout the lifespan, practicing from a contemporary psychodynamic framework. Additionally, Dr. Calandra works as a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, providing intervention to patients and family members in acute psychological distress. Dr. Calandra brings over 20 years of diverse mental health experience to the classroom. As an officer in the United States Air Force she functioned as both psychologist and psychiatric nurse. Dr. Calandra has authored a number of health psychology articles for peer reviewed publications.

Enio Cipani, PhD, is a licensed Psychologist in the State of California and a Professor in the Dept of Special Education at National University, Fresno, CA.  He has also served as a Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology and University of the Pacific.  He has also published extensively on behavior analysis, behavior modification, and research techniques.

Kenneth M. Cohen, PhD, is a Lecturer in Human Development at Cornell University.  He is also the Program Director for Sexual Minority Development for the Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS), Cornell University, where he coordinates sexual minority development, treatment, and outreach efforts; and provides consultation to students, faculty, and staff regarding sexual minority mental health concerns.   Dr Cohen is the Co-editor of The Wives of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals: Children to Adults (Harcourt Brace, 1996)

Diana Everstine, PhD, is internationally-known for applying the strategic approach to crisis intervention and trauma, and directs a clinical group which specializes in the assessment and treatment related to traumatic events.  She is also a Fellow of the Mental Research Institute (MRI) and President of Behaviordata, Inc., a psychological corporation which computerized test scoring, behavioral analysis, consultation, and training to clinicians, the corporate world, and law enforcement.  She is the co-author of five textbooks on crisis and trauma, which have been translated into six foreign languages.

David Fox, PhD, is a clinical and consulting psychologist practicing in Beverly Hills. A professor at Alliant International University since 1984, he is also adjunct graduate faculty at the University of Southern California. He teaches courses on supervision, law and ethics, and diagnostic and forensic specializations. A published author, Dr. Fox has presented his work across the country and abroad and has been interviewed on CNN and other media programs.

Paul Gaiser, PsyD, has been working in the mental health and substance abuse field since 1982. He is a clinical supervisor at 14th Street Clinic and has a private practice in Oakland, California. He has taught extensively on the topic of chemical dependency at California State University, Hayward. He has also treated psychiatric emergencies at the Contra Costa Medical Center in Martinez, California.

 Nina Ghiselli, PsyD,is the systemwide director of disability services and adjunct faculty at Alliant International University and a psychologist in private practice. She also teaches courses at U.C. Berkeley Extension and Argosy University and consults with schools and agencies about how to make their programs more accessible for people with disabilities.  Dr. Ghiselli teaches courses on disability law, application to the clinical population, effective teaching, mainstreaming children with disabilities and diversity.  Her clinical work focuses on adults with disabilities.

Robert Grant, PhD, is a consultant and trainer to educational, business, religious, medical, military, relief, missionary and mental health organizations. He works at home and abroad in the areas of trauma, spirituality and cross-cultural issues. As a psychologist he has gone into trauma zones to assess and treat victims, as well as to support professionals working in these locations. He has assessed/treated over 1000 victims of trauma over a 13 year period and given workshops and trainings to over 5000 professionals in over 25 countries around the world. He is the author of Living and Working in Environments of Violence: A Resource Manual for Humanitarian Workers (2000), A Comprehensive Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Trauma: A Working Manual for Therapists, Physicians and Pastoral Counselors (2000), Healing the Soul of the Church: Ministers Facing Their Histories of Abuse and Trauma (1994), The Way of the Wound: A Spirituality of Trauma and Transformation (1998) and The Journey of Forgiveness, a work in progress.

Frederick Heide, Ph.D. is associate professor at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco, where he has won both the Master Teacher and Teacher of the Year Awards.   Dr. Heide is past president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy and has published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Psychophysiology, Behaviour Research and Therapy, and elsewhere.  He is also co-founder of American Folklore Theatre in Wisconsin, described by Money Magazine as “one of the top regional theatres in the country.”  There he has co-authored some 15 stage musicals that have been seen by tens of thousands, including the hit comedy Packer Fans from Outer Space. A professional performer for over three decades, Dr. Heide studied and has created several shows with Paul Sills, founder of Chicago’s renowned Second City Theatre.   Dr. Heide is also a top-rated instructor at the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Door County Summer Institute, where he teaches humor methods to psychotherapists. 

Eric W. Hickey, PhD, Dr. Hickey is the Director of the Center for Forensic Studies at Alliant International University. He also teaches a course in criminal psychology at California State University, Fresno, CA.  Dr. Hickey has taught many courses in criminal personalities, sex crimes, homicide and psychopathology in universities, colleges, jails and prisons and supervises theses and dissertations involving forensic and criminal psychology. Dr. Hickey has considerable field experience working with the criminally insane, psychopaths, sex offenders and other habitual criminals. He has also served as an adjunct instructor for the American Prosecutor's Research Institute at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina profiling stalkers, cyber-stalkers, criminal personalities and sexual predators.

He publishes books, articles and lectures extensively on the etiology of violence and serial crime. His book, Serial Murderers and Their Victims, 4th ed., Thomson/Wadsworth Publishers, is used as a teaching tool in universities and by law enforcement in studying the nature of violence, criminal personalities and victim-offender relationships. Another of his books, The Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime, Sage Publishers, explores the phenomenon of murder and violence through the eyes of some of the world’s most noted experts. His latest book with Prentice-Hall Publishers, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia, is a comprehensive examination of sexual deviants and sexual predators. He is currently writing another text examining criminal minds and criminal personalities. He is also writing his first novel, In Sane, a disturbing journey into the minds of psychotics, psychopaths and the criminally insane. Dr. Hickey is co-founder of Gambaru Productions and is developing a new television series, Predators.

Tammy Ichinotsubo-Ezzi, PhD, is a former assistant professor in the clinical PsyD program at Alliant International University. She currently has two private practice offices in Tustin and in Rolling Hills Estates where she focuses on the integration of spirituality and psychotherapy. Other key areas of her work include multicultural issues, trauma and family violence, religious issues and EMDR.

Sue Johnson, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Ottawa University and Director of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute. She is a registered psychologist in the province of Ontario, Canada and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.  She is one of the originators of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), now one of the best validated couples interventions in North America. In the past ten years she has authored two books on EFT, Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (1988, Guilford Press) with Leslie Greenberg and, most recently, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Marital Therapy : Creating Connection (1996, Brunner/Mazel). She has also authored numerous articles and research studies on couples therapy.

Lewis Lancaster, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley.  He is a specialist in the canons of Buddhist texts, and taught in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC, Berkeley, for 33 years, with five years as Chair. By means of a grant from the National Geographic Society, he and a group of students and faculty inventoried texts in monasteries among the Sherpa people in the Himalayas. He then began to research the problems of converting Buddhist texts from Pali and Chinese into computer format, which resulted in major CD ROM databases. That computer experience then led him to form an association of scholars called the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, which is housed on the Berkeley campus and has a thousand affiliates worldwide. He is also the former President of University of the West, in Rosemead, CA.

Michael Linden, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, marriage and family therapist and a nationally certified biofeedback and neurofeedback therapist. Dr. Linden has specialized in the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) since 1982 and is the Director of the ADD Treatment Centers and Neurofeedback Programs at Mission Psychological Consultants’ three locations in San Juan Capistrano, Irvine and Carlsbad. He has published several studies on QEEG assessment and neurofeedback treatment of ADD over the past seven years (Journal of Neuropsychology, Journal of Biofeedback and Self-Regulation) and was one of the original Neurofeedback clinicians with ADD children in the 1980's.

Philip Manfield, PhD, is a psychotherapist in private practice in the Bay Area for over 25 years and has trained therapists in EMDR for the past ten years in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. He is author of Split Self/Split Object and editor and primary contributor to Extending EMDR: A Casebook of Innovative Applications. He is the Northern California coordinator of the EMDR International Association.

Claude S. Munday, PhD, has been in private practice in clinical psychology and neuropsychology since 1981, with a specialization in brain injuries and physical disabilities.  Dr Munday has also been a consultant to the Committee of Bar Examiners for the State of California, Chief of Psychology for NeuroCare, and a Psychological consultant to the Rehabilitation Unit at St Francis Hospital in San Francisco.  He is a past Director and President of the Brain Injury Association of California and a Director of the California Society for Industrial Medicine and Surgery.

Laurel Parnell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and the author of Transforming Trauma: EMDR and EMDR in the Treatment of Adults Abused as Children. An EMDRIA-approved instructor, Dr. Parnell teaches EMDR nationally and internationally. She has a private practice in San Rafael and is an adjunct faulty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Jason Platt, PhD, is a program director of the Clinical Psychology Program in Mexico City and an assistant professor in the Marital and Family Therapy Program at Alliant International University. He is a frequent presenter on how individuals develop clinical competency. He is also keenly interested in the application of the concepts of Ignacio Martin-Baro’s Liberation Psychology and the Liberationist Pedagogy described in the works of Paulo Freire.

John Preston, PsyD, is a faculty member at Alliant International University and has also taught at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Preston is the author of eleven books on various topics including Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists. He is also the author of Drugs in Psychiatry, a chapter in the Encyclopedia Americana. Dr. Preston is the recipient of the Mental Health Association’s President’s Award for contributions to the mental health community. He has lectured widely in the United States, Europe and Russia.

Julie Robbins, LCSW, has served as victim services director for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and is on the adjunct faculty of JFK University and CSPP at Alliant International University. She is in private practice, conducts trainings, and serves on the board of the California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.

Mark Rosenthal, LCSW
Mark is a founding member of the San Francisco DBT Center.  He was introduced to DBT about 10 years ago and began working with the skills in his clinical work with the homeless population.  From 2000 to 2006, Mark worked at the Partial Hospitalization Program at University of California, San Francisco’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (LPPI).  At LPPI, Mark did individual DBT with patients and supported the skills developed in the DBT skills group on the unit.  He also provides DBT training to clinicians.

Ritch C. Savin-Williams, PhD, is professor and chair of Human Development at Cornell University. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied sex differences in dominance hierarchy formation at summer camp. Later research projects included examining behavioral and experienced domains of self-esteem and adolescent friendships.  He is currently writing about the experiences of growing up with same-sex attractions, the mental health of sexual-minority youth, and the sexual development of heterosexual youth.  Dr. Savin-Williams is also a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice and has served as an expert witness on same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and Boy Scout court cases. He received the 2001 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution and the 2005 Outstanding Book Award from Division 44 of the American Psychological Association for The New Gay Teenager.

Ilene Serlin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and registered dance/movement therapist. She is the founder and Director of Union Street Health Associates and the Arts Medicine Program at California Pacific Medical Center. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Past President and Council Representative of the Division of Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association, on the Editorial Boards of the Arts in Psychotherapy, the Journal of Dance Therapy, and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and has taught and published widely in the US and abroad.

Pat Shelton, Ph.D., MFT., is a CAMFT-Certified Supervisor.  She has supervised trainees and advanced interns in several agencies and has provided trainings for interns, therapists, and members of Marin-CAMFT for many years.  She is a clinical consultant for the Substance Abuse Recovery program at the Family Service Agency of Marin.  In her private practice, she does individual and couples therapy, specializes in the treatment of infidelity, and leads a consultation group for therapists and supervisors.  Dr. Shelton is an adjunct faculty member teaching “Models of Supervision” and “Psychodynamic Theory” in the doctoral Counseling Psychology Dept. at Argosy University. Previously, she taught for four years at Dominican University in the gradua te Counseling Psychology Dept..  She is a past-President of Marin-CAMFT and was selected its “Chapter Leader of the Year” in 2001.

Ellen Stein, PhD, is a clinical and forensic psychologist specializing in family violence, trauma and abuse, affective and personality disorders, and issues of sexuality. She is an adjunct professor at Alliant International University and also teaches license exam review workshops for the Association for Advanced Training in Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Stein's practice includes contracted forensic services for the US Border Patrol and INS. Her forensic consultation includes trainings, evaluation, treatment and expert witness testimony in criminal and civil litigation.

Paul Sussman, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, marriage and family therapist and certified bioenergetic analyst working in private practice in San Diego. He is an adjunct faculty member at Alliant International University and an instructor at the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency, teaching continuing education courses in human sexuality and clinical supervision. Dr. Sussman spent ten years as a clinical and consulting psychologist with the US Navy's Family Advocacy Center's incest and domestic violence programs and worked as a clinical supervisor at the Relationship Violence Treatment and Intervention Program. Dr. Sussman has participated in experimental research in the fields of HIV and AIDS, psychoneuroimmunology and domestic violence.

Daniel Taube, PhD, JD, is an associate professor at Alliant International University, specializing in family and child clinical, legal and ethical issues. He is Chair of the Institutional Review Board and Coordinator of the Forensic Family Child track. Dr. Taube’s areas of interest include ethical and legal issues in professional practice and research, and prevention and intervention into child maltreatment. He consults regularly with mental health professionals and attorneys regarding ethics and standards of care in professional practice, and has published research and commentary on such issues.

Scott Woolley, PhD, is Director of the Marital and Family Therapy Masters and Doctoral Programs in the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University. He has a clinical specialization in couples therapy and MFT supervision and has trained mental health professionals in Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, and throughout the United States in couple therapy and/or supervision. In recent years, Dr. Woolley has worked closely with Dr. Susan Johnson, founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy, and with Jay Haley, a senior founder of the field of family therapy. Dr. Woolley is licensed in both Texas and California, and is an AAMFT Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor.

Joan Zweben, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with over 30 years of experience treating addiction and training treatment practitioners. She has an unusually broad-based background in both alcoholism and drug dependence, and has extensive experience with both residential and outpatient modalities. Dr. Zweben is the Founder of the East Bay Community Recovery Project and the 14th Street Clinic and Medical Group, as well as author and editor of over thirty articles and book chapters on the treatment of addiction.